Example sentences of "[adv] but [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living in such a cloistered world such operations are never looked at objectively but simply as a means of gaining personal kudos for one small group within an agency . |
| 2 | In their care , the gardens have continued to be maintained excellently but rather as a commercial undertaking : there are innovations in the form of an expensive gift shop and tea-room — developments of which I doubt Osgood would have approved . |
| 3 | Thse observations suggest that HCO 3 - is not absorbed directly but rather as a result of H + secretion via apical Na + /H + exchange . |
| 4 | The Huntsville Unit , which is the original prison and is still in use , and known unofficially but universally as The Walls , accommodates close to 1,800 . |
| 5 | Perception is not conceived as a direct grasping of an occurrence here but rather as the means by which the perceiver obtains a resulting impression which may or may not correspond to what actually happened . |
| 6 | To the fore of the courtyard about twenty male , mostly young , dancers shake their bodies rhythmically but independently as a man carrying a pot of burning incense weaves among them . |